...gee whiz guys...I listen to an awful lot of teenage, popular, top forty music, alternative: all the stuff my son listens to...many of the singers sing extremely well, many of the musicians are the finest in studio work, a good deal of the music is like nothing else, creative and unusual, much of it uses the latest technology brilliantly and creatively...bad music is what you don't like personally isn't it? in regression analysis our folk music would plot as "outlyers"...does that make it better? If a giant meteorite or a world war or an asteroid hits the world and most of us perish, our oral tradition will include alot of this music...then it will be folk won't it? harpgirl